Variable-temperature
17O NMR experiments were conducted on t
he nanometer-sized Keplerate
Mo72Fe30 cluster,wit
h t
he stoic
hiometry [Mo
72Fe
30O
252(CH
3COO)
12[Mo
2O
7(H
2O)]
2[H
2Mo
2O
8(H
2O)](H
2O)
91]·~150H
2O. T
his moleculecontains on its surface 30 Fe(H
2O) groups forming a well-defined icosidodeca
hedron, and we estimated t
he ratesof exc
hange of t
he isolated >Fe
III-OH
2 waters wit
h bulk aqueous solution. Bot
h longitudinal and transverse
17O-relaxation times were measured, as well as c
hemical s
hifts, and t
hese parameters were t
hen fit to t
he Swift-Connick equations in order to obtain t
he rate parameters. Correspondingly, we estimate:
kex298 = 6.7(±0.8) × 10
6s
-1, w
hic
h is about a factor of ~4 × 10
4 times larger t
han t
he corresponding rate coefficient for t
he Fe(OH
2)
63+ ionof
kex298 = 1.6 × 10
2 s
-1 (Grant and Jordan, 1981;
Inorg. Chem. 20, 55-60) and
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-1 and -26 ± 0.9 J mol
-1 K
-1, respectively. Hig
h-pressure
17O NMR experiments were also conducted, but t
hecluster decomposed slig
htly under pressure, w
hic
h precluded confident quantitative estimation of t
he
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he increase in t
he reduced transverse-relaxation time wit
h pressure suggests a dissociative c
haracter, suc
h as a
D or
Id mec
hanism. T
he en
hanced reactivity of waters on t
he
Mo72Fe30 cluster is associated wit
h an increase int
he Fe
III-OH
2 bond lengt
h in t
he solid state of ~0.1 Å relative to t
he Fe(OH
2)
63+ ion, suggesting t
hat a correlationexists between t
he Fe
III-OH
2 bond lengt
h and
kex298. Alt
houg
h t
here are only few
hig
h-spin Fe(III) complexesw
here bot
h exc
hange rates and structural data are available, t
hese few seem to support a general correlation.